Re: [PATCH] mfd: cpcap: Fix interrupt regression with regmap clear_ack

[Lee Jones]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Tony Lindgren wrote:

> With commit 3a6f0fb7b8eb ("regmap: irq: Add support to clear ack
> registers"), the cpcap interrupts are no longer getting acked properly
> leading to a very unresponsive device with CPUs fully loaded spinning
> in the threaded IRQ handlers.
> 
> To me it looks like the clear_ack commit above actually fixed a long
> standing bug in regmap_irq_thread() where we unconditionally acked the
> interrupts earlier without considering ack_invert. And the issue with
> cpcap started happening as we now also consider ack_invert.
> 
> Tim Harvey <tharvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> tried to fix this issue earlier with
> "[PATCH v2] regmap: irq: fix ack-invert", but the reading of the ack
> register was considered unnecessary for just ack_invert, and we did not
> have clear_ack available yet. As the cpcap irqs worked both with and
> without ack_invert earlier because of the unconditional ack, the
> problem remained hidden until now.
> 
> Also, looks like the earlier v3.0.8 based Motorola Android Linux kernel
> does clear_ack style read-clear-write with "ireg_val & ~mreg_val" instead
> of just ack_invert style write. So let's switch cpcap to use clear_ack
> to fix the issue.
> 
> Fixes: 3a6f0fb7b8eb ("regmap: irq: Add support to clear ack registers")
> Cc: Carl Philipp Klemm <philipp@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Laxminath Kasam <lkasam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Merlijn Wajer <merlijn@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tim Harvey <tharvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/motorola-cpcap.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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